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WASHINGTON CO. KY
Formed 1792 from Nelson
Anderson formed 1827 from Franklin, Mercer, Washington
Marion formed 1834 from Washington
CENSUS RECORDS
1810 Washington Co. KY Census
No Duncan indexed
1820 Washington Co. KY Census
Pg.87 Benj. Dunken 100010 - 10110
(MAD: Benjamin Duncan mar. Elizabeth B. Ray 12/31/1818; Benjamin Duncan mar. Silvia Elliston 4/30/1824)
1830-1840 Washington Co. KY Census
No Duncan indexed
1850 Washington Co. KY Census (pg.173b from David Sengel 10/2005)
September 13, 1850
Pg.173b, #617-617, G.C. ALFRED (m) 43 KY (blank occupation) $7500
Martha 41 KY
John R. DUNCAN 21 KY (blank)
Mathew T. DUNCAN 29 KY (blank)
(MAD: M.T. Duncan & John R. Duncan in 1860 Mercer Co. KY census; Mathew T/F. Duncan in 1880 Anderson Co. KY census)
Pg.186, #796-796, Lawsen DUNCAN 28 KY farmer $440
Elizabeth C. 25 KY
Mary A. 4, Margaret E. 2 KY
(MAD: Lawson Duncan mar. Elizabeth S.A. Harvey 1/10/1845; Losson Duncan b. 3/1/1823, d. 7/14/1892, and wife bur. Rockbridge Cemetery; from pg.81, "Washington Co. KY Cemeteries" Vol.1 by Sanders, from Mary Sutton and Lucille Mehrkam 1985)
Pg.196, #909-909, Peter B. DUNCAN 29 KY (blank occupation) $2350
Susan M. 21 KY
Ann E. 14, Josiah B. 8 KY
James W. 6, Mary C. 4 KY
(MAD: Peter B. Duncan mar. Susan Mary Beam 3/1/1849)
1860 Washington Co. KY Census (and from Mary Sutton 7/1985)
Willisburg
Pg.61, #384, P.B. DUNCAN (m) 41 KY farmer $900-$250
Susan M. 39 KY
J.B. (m) 19 KY
Mary C. 9, David 8 KY
Julia H. (m) 6, Martha 5 KY
Fany P. (f) 2 KY
(MAD: Peter B. Duncan, in 1870 Union Co. KY census)
Pg.76, #486-2, Lawson DUNCAN 38 KY farmer $1400-$150
Sarah E. 35 KY
Polly Ann 15, Margaret E. 13 KY
Wm. H. 10, Martha J. 7, John D. 3 KY
Mackville
Pg.149, #398, W.H. DUNCAN (m) 36 KY farmer $4500-$4350
Mary E. 30 KY
Allis 13, Thomas 11, Nancy J. 9 KY
James C. 7, George D. 5 KY
Charles D. 3, Wm. H. 4/12 KY
Margaret DAVIDSON 31 KY
(MAD: William Duncan mar. Mary E. Davison 5/25/1846; 1850 Marion Co. KY census; Alice Duncan mar. Clem Funk 11/15/1865, bondsman W.H. Duncan; W.H. Duncan b. 8/30/1823, d. 5/22/1871, and wife & fam. bur. Pleasant Grove Cemetery, from pg.110, "Washington Co. KY Cemeteries" Vol.1 by Sanders, from Mary Sutton and Lucille Mehrkam 1985)
1870 Washington Co. KY Census (pg.400 also from Kathy Cawley 2/2002)
North Precinct
Pg.363, #405-405, YATES, William 66 KY (white) farmer $5000-$1000
Eliza 50 KY keeping house
Sarah 35 KY at home
Alexander 21 KY farm laborer
Harvey 11 KY farm laborer
Grant (m) 5 KY
Lawrence 13 KY farm laborer
Bell (f) 10 KY at home
Mary 9, Solomon (m) 7 KY
DUNCAN, James 39 KY (white) farm laborer (indexed age 29)
HRITAHEREON?, Jno. 21 KY (white) farm laborer
Springfield Precinct
Pg.400, #177-177, CLARKSTON, Elizabeth 48 KY keeps house $8200-$2100
Thomas 24 KY farmer
Hannah 22 KY
Willie (m) 15 KY at home
Loyd (m) 9 KY
DUNCAN, Hester (f) 30 KY BLACK cook
Laura 14 KY BLACK house servant
Mary 8, Eliza 5, John 2 KY BLACK
HAMILTON, Robert 16? KY MULATTO farm laborer
Pg.408, #265-265, DUNCAN, Henry 46 KY (white) farmer $2000??-$2050
(dark, blotted area on page)
Mary 40 KY house keeping
Thomas 21 KY farmer $0-$400
Nancy 19, James 17 KY at home
Davy (m) 15 KY at home
Willie (m) 11 KY at school
Nellie 9, Mallisa? (f) 6 KY
Eddie (m) 3 KY
Susie 10/12 KY b.Feby. (as given)
FUNK, Clem (m) 30 KY (white) farmer $3200-$800
Alice 28 KY keeping house
Mary 3, William 1 KY
(MAD: W.H. Duncan 36 KY in 1860 census)
Willisburg Precinct
Pg.429, #73-73, DUNCAN, Lawson 50 KY (white) farmer $1000-$3000
Sarah 48 KY keeping house
William 20, Martha 16 KY at home
John 12 KY at home
Pg.442, #244-244, DUNCAN, Joseph 40 KY (white) distiller $0-$200
Emma 39 KY keeping house
(no children)
VITAL RECORDS
Washington Co. KY Vital Records (216,842 item 3)
Pg.6, George D. Duncan, male, born Apr. 1, 1855 in Marion Co. to W.H. Duncan and Mary E. Davison.
(MAD: did not look for others)
ESTATE RECORDS
Washington Co. KY Will, Estate, Inventory, etc. Books (index 1792-1969 on FHL film 551,264)
No Duncan inventory etc. to 1873; no Flint to 1876 (index)
(MAD: was looking for information about Alexander Duncan who mar. Susan R. Flynt 7/5/1826; see also Nelson Co. KY and Boone Co. MO)
Will Book A, 1792-1808 - no Duncan, Flint (FHL film 241,410)
Will Book B, 1809-1816 - no Duncan, Flint
Will Book C, 1816-1824 - no index
LAND RECORDS
Washington Co. KY Deeds (index 1792-1860 on FHL negative film 241,389)
No Flint to Book S, 1853, grantee or grantor
I-360: 10 Dec. 1825, Henry P. Anaddletin of VA on his own part and as attorney for William Crutchfield of same state, to Ellis Duncan of State of KY, $100, land on Chaplin fork on the back fork where the two creeks meet, by virtue of a military warrant of John Crutchfield April 29, 1780, patented for 50 acres. Wit. William Miner and William Young. Further statement: defend land from all claims of the Crutchfield family, or from claim etc. in his wife formerly Mildred Crutchfield. Wit. William Minor, Green Duncan. Rec. on oath of wit. (FHL film 241,393) (MAD: See Nelson Co. KY)
S-135: 24 Nov. 1851, Erasmus Hendrix & wife Nancy and Lawson Duncan & wife Sarah E. and John C. Foster and wife Mary C., to Obediah Cheatham, land known as the widows dower part of lands of Lewis Harvey, decd., her thirds being about 125 acres. (FHL film 241,396)
S-136: 12 Jan. 1852, Lawson Duncan and wife Sarah E. and John C. Foster and wife Mary C., to Erasmus Hendrix, all Washington Co. KY, $32, our undivided interest in land, supposed to be 20 acres, adj. said Hendrix, Obediah Cheatham, James Mayes. (FHL film 241,396)
Washington Co KY Deed Book H, pg.477, transcript (from David D. Sengel to Kathy D. Cawley 9/2007)
Deed Book H-477: Know all men by these presents that whereas John Woods late of Franklin County in the State of Tennessee and formerly of Madison County in the State of Kentucky having departed this life leaving the following persons his children and heirs to wit: Marian Woods who intermarried with Charles Duncan, Susannah Milum formerly Susannah Woods wife of Jarvis Milum, James Woods, Sarah Woods who intermarried with William Evans (the said Sarah having died leaving three children viz: Minerva, Jane, and Wallace E. Evans), Rebeckah Hazelrig formerly Rebeckah Woods wife of William Hazelrig (the said Rebeckah having also died leaving five children viz: Elizabeth Dillard, Abigail, John, and Mary Anne Hazelrig) and whereas the said John Woods the ancestor of and previous to his death had claims to about thousand acres of land lying in Washington County in the State of Kentucky on the waters of Salt River which descended to his said heirs, the said John Woods having left his land lying in Washington County in Kentucky undevised. Now know all men by these presents that we Charles Duncan and Marian the wife of said Charles, Jarvis Milum and Susannah his wife, James Woods, William Evans, and William Hazelrig for and in consideration of the confidence which we have in the said Charles Duncan have made constituted and appointed and by these presents do make constitute and appoint the said Charles Duncan our true and lawful attorney for the following purpose that is to say the said Charles Duncan is authorized for himself and his wife, Jarvis Milum and Susannah his wife, and James Woods to sell and dispose of all their interest which they have to any lands in the State of Kentucky in Washington County devised to them as the representatives of said James (DDS: mistaken - means John) Woods deceased and to make titles in fee simple to the purchaser or purchasers there of, but not with general warranty but only to defend against the claims of ourselves and all persons claiming under us and the said William Evans and William Hazelrig also authorize the said Charles Duncan to sell and dispose of their interest which the children of the said Evans and Hazelrig have in said lands and to give an obligation binding the said Evans and Hazelrig and their heirs to cause to be made a title in fee simple to their interest and the interest of their children in said lands whenever arrive at the age of twentyone years ? that is they authorize the said Charles Duncan to sign an obligation by which said Evans and Hazelrig shall undertake for their children that each child will convey his interest to the purchaser but not with general warranty and in the event that our said attorney can not sell and dispose of said lands we then authorize him to lease the farm to bring suits for the recovery there of or to do anything else for our use and benefit in relation to said lands that we ourselves could do if we were physically present. And whereas the said lands were located by James Kincaid who is entitled to one fourth part thereof as locator and we authorize our said attorney to settle with said locator and make partition with him so as to allot said locators interest in severally and we further authorize our said attorney to appoint an agent under him and to confer on said attorney all or any part of the powers hereby vested in himself. Witness our hands and seals this 25th day of April 1824.
/s/ Charles Duncan, Seal; Marian Duncan, Seal; Jarvis Milum, Seal; Susannah Milum, Seal; James Woods, Seal
Atteste: Samuel Handley, Samuel Berry.
State of Tennessee Franklin County. This day personally appeared Charles Duncan?? ..
State of Tennessee ... Edmund Russell ??
Kentucky, Washington County?.., I John Hughes?? ... Examined & Delivered, 29th day of May, 1824
REFERENCES FROM OTHER LOCALITIES
Bullitt Co. KY Deed (SLC 10/4/2011)
M-459/461: 11 Sept. 1852, Scarlette B. Duncan, Jeanette L. Duncan, William H. Duncan, Jepthah Duncan, Margaret B. Duncan, Charles Duncan and Milly his wife of Nelson Co. KY, and Lloyd Clarkson and Elizabeth Ana his wife of Washington Co. KY, and Thomas Duncan of Nelson Co. KY, to Armistead H. Churchill, Alexander P. Churchill, Eliza Ann McKinney and Lucy Slaughter, devisees of Henry Churchill decd, that some years ago the said Thomas Duncan sold to said Henry Churchill the 1/10 part of a tract of land in Bullitt Co. on waters of Knob Creek and Salt River containing by patent 986 acres and also 1/8 part of 150 acres of said land, being the part owned by Hugh Burkley decd which 150 acres had been devised by said Hugh to his sister Catharine during her natural life, being the same tract owned and occupied by Scarlett Burkley at the time of his death, for the conveyance of which said Thomas Duncan executed to Henry Churchill his bond, which land Thomas Duncan claimed in right of his wife, and whereas also Jonathan D. Burkley also sold to said Henry Churchill his interest in the tract of 986 acres and executed his bond to Churchill to convey it but has died without doing it, whereby his interest devolved to his heirs of whom Nancy Duncan the wife of the said Thomas Duncan was one and the said Nancy Duncan has also departed this life, whereby her interest has descended to the parties of the first part before named had only children excepted? the said Thomas Duncan, Lloyd Clarkson and Charles Duncan, and all of the parties of the first part wishing to ratify and confirm the sales made by said Thomas Duncan and Jonathan D. Burkley for $1 sell to said A.H. Churchill, A.P. Churchill, Eliza Ann McKinney and Lucy Slaughter the afsd tract of land sold by said Thomas Duncan, and so much of the land afsd as was sold by Jonathan D. Burkley to said Henry Churchill; Thomas Duncan will warrant title of that part sold by him but the other grantors are in no way to be responsible for any defect? of title, they only intending to convey such title as has been vested in them by the death of the said Nancy Duncan and Jonathan D. Burkley. /s/ Thomas Duncan Jr., Scarlett B. Duncan, Jepthah Duncan, Margaret Duncan, Milly Dawson (wife of), Charles Dawson, Jennette L. Duncan, Loyd Clarkson, (and wife) Elizabeth A. Clarkson, Wm. H. Duncan. 6 April 1853, W.H. Duncan appeared before R.H. Rountree, Clerk of Marion Co. KY Court. 7 April 1853, Margaret Duncan and Loyd Clarkson and Elizabeth A. Clarkson his wife appeared before John B. Starn? Clerk of Washington Co. KY Court. 9 April 1853, Thomas Duncan, Scarlett B. Duncan, Jepthat Duncan, Jennette L. Duncan, Charles Dawson and his wife Milly Dawson appeared before J. Darrius Elliott, Clerk of Nelson Co. KY Court. Recorded 12 April 1853, Bullitt Co. KY. (FHL film 482,663; indexed as M-439; SLC 10/4/2011)
Nelson Co. KY Deed (FHL film 483,137)
26-210: 20 March 1848, Peter B. Duncan of Washington Co. KY to Thomas H. Miles of Nelson Co. KY, $1, my interest to land purchased of Josiah Marshall, being part of the land mortgaged by Josiah Marshall to E.B. Miles in his lifetime. Wit. E.H. McKay, Haden E. Stone. No wife.
HISTORIES before 1923
1885 "History of McDonough County, Illinois : together with sketches of the towns, villages and townships, educational, civil, military and political history; portraits of prominent individuals, and biographies of the representative citizens; and History of Illinois ..." pub. by Continental Historical Co. (FHL book 977.342 H2h and film 1,000,503 item 2)
Pg.683: Emmett Township: Abraham B. Stickle ... He was married August 10, 1853, to Sarah Duncan, a native of Kentucky and daughter of William and Catharine Duncan, who were early settlers in this county. William Duncan died in 1859; his widow is now living with her children. Mrs. Stickle died February 7, 1857. January 1, 1860, Mr. Stickle was again married to Sarah Metcalf ...
Pg.1033: Walnut Grove Township: Elisha Fargusson was born in Adair Co. KY, January 29, 1814, and is a son of Stephen and Nancy Fargusson. There Elisha was reared until he reached the age of 19 years, when he removed to Illinois, locating in Morgan county, where he farmed for two years, being a resident of that county during the winter of the deep snow. ... In the fall of 1832, he came to McDonough county, settling at Wolf Grove, in Macomb township. Mr. Fargusson was married in McDonough county, April 11, 1861, to Isabel Duncan, a daughter of William and Catherine Duncan, who came from the state of Kentucky to this county in 1842. Her father died in 1860, but her mother is still living, and makes her home with her daughter, Isabel. .... (MAD: William Duncan mar. Catherine Purdy 10/28/1832 Washington Co. KY; 1840 Marion Co. KY census; see McDonough Co. IL deeds, wife Catherine Amanda)
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